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"Old /Gam," with something on her lips
"Old /Gam," with something on her lips
Object Number 2001.29.14495
Display Title "Old /Gam," with something on her lips
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition III b/w 120
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 × 6.35 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Old /Gam," with something on her lips (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.32686 "Old /Gam," with something on her lips (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Old /Gam," with something on her lips
2001.29.658 "Old /Gam," with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Old /Gam" with something on her lips
2001.29.25978.1 "Old /Gam" with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Old /Gam" with something on her lips
2001.29.25978 "Old /Gam" with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khwo//o-/Gasa looking at a child, with ostrich eggshell beads on a kaross on the ground in front of her, sitting with "Old /Gam" who is looking at something in her hand
2001.29.14823 Khwo//o-/Gasa looking at a child, with ostrich eggshell beads on a kaross on the ground in front of her, sitting with "Old /Gam" who is looking at something in her hand
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765.1 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet," headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30097 [No folder title]: Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet," headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children, Eating: "Old /Gam" chewing something and about to give it to her granddaughter Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa)
2001.29.2804 Children, Eating: "Old /Gam" chewing something and about to give it to her granddaughter Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder
2001.29.20558 /Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27034 /Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan